Sweetbreads with Pears and Girolles Recipe
Flavors of the Loire Valley
Total time: 15 to 30 minutes
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
For 4 servings
- 4 calf sweetbreads, 120 g (4 oz.) each
- 200 g (7 oz.) fresh pork larding fat
- 150 g (5 oz.) fresh girolle mushrooms
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) horn of plenty mushrooms
- 4 nice walnuts, shelled
- 16 Muscat raisins
- 1 pear
- 12 small sorrel leaves
- 150 ml (5 oz.) veal jus
- 250 ml (1 cup) dry Noilly Prat vermouth
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) butter
Method
- Blanch the sweetbreads in boiling water for 2 minutes. Refresh in ice water.
- Form each sweetbread into a tournedos (disc shape) and surround with a slice of barding fat. Tie each tournedos.
- In a Dutch oven or cocotte, melt 50 g (2 oz.) butter and add the sweetbreads. Color gently without letting the butter burn, for about 6-8 minutes on each side.
- Meanwhile, reduce the Noilly Prat to three quarters. Add the veal jus, bring just to a boil and set aside.
- Seed the raisins. Clean the mushrooms. Cut the pear into thin wedges.
- Gently roast the pear with the sweetbreads for the final cooking time.
- In a skillet, add the remaining butter and cook the girolles for 1-2 minutes, adding a spoonful of water. Set aside. Do the same with the horn of plenty mushrooms.
Presentation
- Place a sweetbread "tournedos" on each plate and surround with mushrooms, grapes, walnuts and pears.
- Spoon around some of the Noilly Prat sauce.
- Finally, add the sorrel leaves to add a tart note.
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